If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as… — Hans-Werner Sinn Copy Share Image
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin… — Kemal Dervis Copy Share Image
In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare… — George Soros Copy Share Image
A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
It [knowledge] is clearly related to information, which we can now measure; and an economist especially is tempted to regard knowledge as… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.” — Kenneth Boulding Copy Share Image
An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social… — George Packer Copy Share Image
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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